Caitlin Ferrell is a writer, director, and producer. Originally from Colorado, she grew up in the performing arts community, with a strong education in dance and an affection for theater.
Caitlin received her BA in theater from the UCLA Theater, Film, & Television department, where she studied musical theater, directing, and film. She most recently graduated with an MFA in screenwriting/directing from the Columbia University School of the Arts MFA Film program. Caitlin has written and directed six short films; Water, Clean, Nora, Grace, Feed Me, and Max & Taco (Get Their Sh!t Together). Apart from her personal work, Caitlin has worked with Vice News, Michael Moore, Marianna Palka, Oren Jacoby, and on Netflix’s Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. She is currently working on multiple narrative feature film scripts.
She is greatly influenced by female playwrights and filmmakers who push the physical and psychological limits of their characters. In both her theatrical and her cinematic creations, she is no stranger to crossing genres, moving from drama to realism, documentary to dark comedy, and beyond. Her complex characters often explore identity from the female point of view, reacting to the extreme yet often darkly humorous events that surround them.
Caitlin is excited to continue learning and to expand her relationship with storytelling in multiple forms.